Method: String#clear

Defined in:
string.c

#clear ⇒ self

Removes the contents of self:

s = 'foo' # => "foo"
s.clear   # => ""

Returns:

  • (self) 


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# File 'string.c', line 6501

static VALUE
rb_str_clear(VALUE str)
{
    str_discard(str);
    STR_SET_EMBED(str);
    STR_SET_LEN(str, 0);
    RSTRING_PTR(str)[0] = 0;
    if (rb_enc_asciicompat(STR_ENC_GET(str)))
        ENC_CODERANGE_SET(str, ENC_CODERANGE_7BIT);
    else
        ENC_CODERANGE_SET(str, ENC_CODERANGE_VALID);
    return str;
}